Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 27, 2012

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    pouncingtiger  over 12 years ago

    I feel your pain, Calvin. Been there, done that.

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    Vandal00  over 12 years ago

    I know that feel bro.

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    doc white  over 12 years ago

    I have the sharper retort days later. Oh,I have one now. Your momma.

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 12 years ago

    I don’t like Moe…

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    BlueEyedCatMom  over 12 years ago

    That happens to me all the time!

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    DerkinsVanPelt218  over 12 years ago

    Me: You wish!

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    rentier  over 12 years ago

    A good and sharp retort is always important!

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    King_Shark  over 12 years ago

    Repartee: what comes to you after you become a departee.

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    bluskies  over 12 years ago

    Happens here, too. Usually about the split-second your finger leaves the “submit” button.

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    Tog  over 12 years ago

    How well I know that feeling Calvin.

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    Bittermelon of Truth  over 12 years ago

    Don’t overthink it! (Unless you’re INTJ like me, in which case go ahead.)

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    Lisa Lou Premium Member over 12 years ago

    The worse thing is, the older I get, the longer it takes to come up with those afterisms.

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    marvelljones  over 12 years ago

    INTJ is a personality type on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator psychological test. Introversion iNtuition Thinking Judging. I don’t own this page but here’s a good resource: http://www.personalitypage.com/INTJ.html

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    alan.gurka  over 12 years ago

    The reason that Moe is the way he is, is because he’s a . . . a . . . um, . . . a . . . . I’ll get back on this.

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    GROG Premium Member over 12 years ago

    It still takes me that long to come up with a comeback.

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    Plods with ...™  over 12 years ago

    20-20 hindsight. The bane of the human race

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    luvcmx  over 12 years ago

    About 25 years ago I heard someone come up with a brilliant INSTANT comeback. I am still in awe of that event and person.

    If it were me I probably would have said “I’ll get back to you on that.”

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    rmacprivate  over 12 years ago

    Just as well that Calvin can’t come up with that snappy comeback at the moment. He should be careful around a grade school-er like Moe, who is already shaving.

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    ThePigman  over 12 years ago

    Forget the retort kid, just whack him with a concrete-filled rubber chicken.

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    hariseldon59  over 12 years ago

    “Oh yeah”, the all purpose comeback line.

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    American1  over 12 years ago

    I experienced butts like Moe in High School. That was 8 years ago. I get satisfaction by thinking that half of those guys are either dead or in jail by now.

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    Stephen Gilberg  over 12 years ago

    “Well, the jerk store called, and they’re running out of you!”

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    Piksea Premium Member over 12 years ago

    esprit d’escalier….it gets us all.

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    Puddleglum2  over 12 years ago

    Moe deserves a tort more than a retort! A civil action might be appropriate in this case. Sue!

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    gobblingup Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Happens to me all the time! Another reason why I like writing better. I can get my thoughts conveyed much more accurately.

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    DavidGBA  over 12 years ago

    The bully-abused become bullies . . . .

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    astar15  over 12 years ago

    Remember a certain strip when Calvin confuses Moe and Calvin looks at the reader and asks for an applause or something?

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    caleblee10  over 12 years ago

    That’s happened to me a countless amount of times…

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    tuslog64  over 12 years ago

    It’s not what you know, it’s what you can think of in time that counts.

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    tuslog64  over 12 years ago

    I wouldn’t say I was bullied in school, but was at the bottom of the “pecking order”. Have outlived most of them.

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    tuslog64  over 12 years ago

    What’s really irritating:Nobody does anything about a bully -until someone beats him up – and then his parents show up at school raising the devil!

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    Phapada  over 12 years ago

    alway Buggin I dun like Moe’s

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    coffeeturtle  over 12 years ago

    “Hey George, the ocean called; they’re running out of shrimp.” – Reilly, on Seinfeld

    So I’ve been told by Wikipedia:

    L’esprit de l’escalier or L’esprit d’escalier (literally, staircase wit) is a French term used in English that describes the predicament of thinking of the right comeback too late.

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    kbyrdleroy123  over 12 years ago

    That happens to me all the time. Not being shoved but thinking of a good line later.

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    Oddname  over 12 years ago

    A smarta$$ never deals with the issue; he makes a sharp retort and falls in love with his mirror. (This is by the way just a horrible metajoke.)

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    ratlum  over 12 years ago

    Yes,good answers very often come later ,at least with me.

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    khpage  over 12 years ago

    Talking to Moe is an utter waste of time. Talking incessantly to a teacher or the principal about what is going on with Moe may get somewhere, especially if Calvin can get a group of other abused kids to go with him. No question that Moe is doing bad things to still other kids as well….

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    Dr_Fogg  over 12 years ago

    Bullies… :-(

    http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/404145_318066974915596_100001368890091_826509_33005996_n.jpg

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    bmonk  over 12 years ago

    A wimp, and proud of it!

    But, in years to come, who’s gonna program your computers, and file your taxes and such?

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    seawolfdon  over 12 years ago

    There always will be bullies around. Sooner or later he’ll run into one bigger than himself and it’ll be his turn to be pushed around.

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    JGordonFan24  over 12 years ago

    Maybe Calvin should keep a list of remarks with him. Might be helpful in the future.

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    iced tea  over 12 years ago

    Just tell the little bully: “It takes one to know one!”

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    Aaron Saltzer  over 12 years ago

    That’s how I used to be, not thinking of some comeback until after the confrontation was over. lol

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    thirdguy  over 12 years ago

    Hey Moe, I heard when you were born, you were so ugly, that the Dr. smacked your Mamma!!!!

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    Popeyesforearm  over 12 years ago

    “Up yur nose with a rubber hose” or something like that.

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    Debra Shore Premium Member over 12 years ago

    I always come up with something really good after it’s too late.

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